cocci
Americannoun
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Three basic prokaryotic categories are cocci, spirilli, and bacilli.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Coccidioides, the fungus that causes cocci, thrives in rain-soaked soil.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2022
Part a: The micrograph shows ball-shaped cocci about 0.9 microns long.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Part of the difficulty is that cocci is “a hundred different diseases,” Dr. Johnson said, depending on where in the body it nests.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2013
Sarcina, sar-sī′na, n. a genus of schizomycetous fungi, in which the cocci divide in three planes forming cubical clumps:—pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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